Phone Number Validation

[Alex Tweedly]

Jeff Honken wrote:

>I'm trying to validate a date.  I've been playing with the below code
>but I can't get it to verify a correct phone number.  Can anyone steer
>me in the correct direction on how to verify a phone number in a field
>for the correct format?  Jeff
>
>  
>
Jeff, you need something more like

> function CheckPhone pPhoneToCheck
>   put "([0-9][0-9][0-9])-([0-9][0-9][0-9])-([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])" 
> into reg
>   return matchText(pPhoneToCheck, reg)
> end CheckPhone
>

>--> Code in Filed
>on closeField
>
>put CheckPhone(me) into Ewr
>   
>  if Ewr is "Bad Phone" then
>    answer "The Telephone Number you entered must be in the format of
>000-000-0000"
>    put "" into me
>    focus on me
>    break
>  
>
Oooooh - one little mistype and you take away all my typing and I need 
to re-do it !
The way I type, I'd probably never succeed in completing  that field ....

btw - there are all kind of other phone formats you may want to allow 
(even within the) US.
A quick Google of "regular expression phone number" will give you more 
ideas than you want ....

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Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net



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